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The sizeof() operator gives you the number of bytes required for storing an object. It also operates on a data type or a value.
Another way of determining the size of an object is to use pointer arithmetic, as in the following example:

struct point {
    long x, y;
};

int main()
{
    struct point pt = {0}, *ppt = &pt;
    unsigned char *p1 = NULL, *p2 = NULL;
    size_t size = 0;

    p1 = (unsigned char*)(ppt);
    p2 = (unsigned char*)(++ppt);
    size = p2 - p1; // size is now 8 bytes (2 longs)
    // same as sizeof(struct point) or sizeof(pt)

    return 0;
}